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The entertaining 1937 British crime drama film The Green Cockatoo stars John Mills as a song and dance man trying to avenge his brother (Robert Newton)’s death at the hands of vicious crooks. ‘She Lost […]
‘The Most Beautiful I.O.U. a Gambler Ever Collected.’ Director Douglas Sirk’s 1951 Universal International Pictures American black and white romance comedy drama film The Lady Pays Off stars Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally. Gigi Perreau, Virginia […]
Myrna Loy appears in her first starring role in director Chester M Franklin’s 1932 black and white romantic drama Vanity Fair, an early sound ‘modern version’ adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s famous 1848 classic novel. […]
Lloyd Nolan stars as Brett Halliday’s wisecracking private detective Michael Shayne in the first of the actor’s seven 20th Century Fox support thrillers. Director Eugene Forde’s 1940 black and white mystery thriller Michael Shayne: Private […]
Minister’s son Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) and heiress Lucinda (Cate Blanchett) fall in love in Victorian England in director Gillian Armstrong’s 1997 movie of Peter Carey’s mid-1800s period novel Oscar and Lucinda. The film is a […]
Rhonda Fleming stars opposite the great comedian Bob Hope in the comedy thriller The Great Lover (1949), scoring a big hit and making her an established bona fide star. However, Fleming recalled: ‘After that, I […]
Director Allan Dwan’s 1955 Western film Tennessee’s Partner stars Ronald Reagan, John Payne, Rhonda Fleming and Colleen Gray. It is written by Graham Baker, D D Beauchamp, Milton Krims, and Teddi Sherman, with uncredited rewrites […]